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Thomas Gerbasi | Farewell To A King

Just A Few Of The Things That Made The Legendary Combat Sports Writer So Beloved

There’s a famous quote, attributed to everyone from Buddha to the Stoics to Kobe Bryant, that our biggest mistake as humans is believing we have more time. And when it came to my friend Tom Gerbasi, who passed too soon earlier this week, I was definitely guilty of thinking we had more time.

In my defense, it was because he was a ubiquitous presence in my life for the last ten years. Despite the fact that he lived and worked in New York and I worked here in Las Vegas, Gerbasi was the co-worker—the only one—that I dealt with every single day of my tenure with the UFC.